Casting Quotes - page 2

Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it. (B. D. Wong)
I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. View quote
Bob Balaban
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business. View quote
Brent Sexton
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. View quote
Barry Pepper
Local casting is just something I love doing. View quote
Benh Zeitlin
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. View quote
Charles Bronson
All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that. View quote
Chris Weitz
Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? View quote
Curly Howard
I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition. View quote
Carly Schroeder
To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you. View quote
Erin Wasson
I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. I'm great at pasta, fish and nice salads. (Jordi Molla)
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic. View quote
Lionel Blue
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it! View quote
Maddie Hasson
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background. View quote
Mario Lopez
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting. View quote
Martin Puryear
L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer. View quote
Matt Walsh
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. View quote
Maya Lin
I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director. View quote
Peter Berg
I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me. View quote
Peter Farrelly
I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. View quote
R. Lee Ermey
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen. (Rupert Sanders)
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent. View quote
Randy Harrison
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. View quote
Sam Mendes
Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason. View quote
Stephen Chow
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. View quote
Steven Bochco